Posts by backupbear@aus.social
(DIR) Post #Auc8bGfC0F8KISwfqK by backupbear@aus.social
2025-05-29T23:19:28Z
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People saying "we should debate nazis in the marketplace of ideas rather than punching them" seem to forget that collectively, humanity determined in the marketplace of ideas that the only way you can debate nazis is to punch them.
(DIR) Post #AucDMFFLUKShKUVmCm by backupbear@aus.social
2024-05-21T23:58:38Z
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Personal theory: LLMs deliver all of the enthusiasm of a 7-year old breathlessly describing a stegosaurus while less than the guaranteed accuracy of the same.
(DIR) Post #AujV2dzevbwnZRhHMm by backupbear@aus.social
2025-06-02T10:19:23Z
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Remember for pride month to exuberantly declare, "Happy Pridemas!" to conservatives to give them a friendly little nudge towards apoplexy and total meltdown by adding in a seeming war against xmas reference too.
(DIR) Post #AuoFIOHAVSuTyrAnMe by backupbear@aus.social
2025-06-05T03:41:38Z
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Me: "My watch seems to be unusually low on battery for this time of the day."Me, a minute later: "Oh, that's because I've been up since 1am."
(DIR) Post #AuwtjT5GI08U8rkXPE by backupbear@aus.social
2025-06-09T07:53:30Z
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Long weekend is well and truly winding down. So glad that my 3am meeting for tomorrow has been cancelled and I get a rather soft intro with first meeting at 5am.
(DIR) Post #Av0gZi7qNqagwcXQvo by backupbear@aus.social
2025-06-11T02:39:07Z
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When the NRA saidThey need guns to protect againstGovernment overreach......it now seems likeThey just wanted toDefend the right toShoot children
(DIR) Post #AvQ04AbcrcZCQHh1Oq by backupbear@aus.social
2025-06-23T09:33:08Z
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As a Gen-Xer who has spent my life watching older generations fucking up the world, seeing 3 boomers involved in a dick waving competition (Trump, Putin and Netanyahu) deliberately edging the world closer to WWIII with their fucking murder-boners ... I'm fucking depressed, tonight.
(DIR) Post #AvQ04IfStEOJQVYCUi by backupbear@aus.social
2025-06-23T09:35:04Z
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And I say this knowing there a fuck-tonne of *my* generation who have learnt all the bad lessons and are perpetuating this bullshit further.
(DIR) Post #AvRk6y0qWIAiHGYTqa by backupbear@aus.social
2025-06-24T04:33:22Z
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So, wow. #Microsoft Loop doesn't support adding PDFs or any Microsoft App files (e.g., Word Docs, Excel, etc.) to your Loops except by inserting as a link manually from OneDrive sharing."Couldn't organise a root in a brothel" keeps coming to mind with this damn "application".
(DIR) Post #AvVqEupraoqt67Qndg by backupbear@aus.social
2025-06-25T10:52:22Z
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Periodic reminder that if someone gets all snobby about the value of the suit they're wearing, the only appropriate response is:"Yeah, your business drag is on point, I guess." *For added bonus, "Extra sequins might have helped."--* Can confirm this shuts up an arrogant senior sales exec.
(DIR) Post #AvYFpNU5RPTJXseGZ6 by backupbear@aus.social
2025-06-27T04:07:25Z
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Dear Restaurants:If your "homepage" is a Facebook page and on the Facebook page you offer a Linktree Link and I click that and it offers me a link to your Menu and that link takes me back to your Facebook page with an album showing two photos, and both of those photos are for your drinks menu rather than your food menu ...... I've well and truly given up and decided you're just too exhausting to deal with.
(DIR) Post #Avg8gT4m8XadrpIET2 by backupbear@aus.social
2025-07-01T02:18:48Z
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HR: "Do you have a moment? We just want to ask you about your self-assessment?"Me: "Sure."HR: "So, for 'personality type', we were expecting something from Myers-Briggs. You know, like ENJF."Me: "Oh?"HR: "You selected 'Other' and filled in, 'Chaotic Good'."Me: "Yes, that's right."HR: "Why?"Me: "Because I use the term 'fortnight' as often as possible in communications in a US-based company, replace 'z's with 's'es, and convert dates everywhere to ISO8601."HR: "Well yes we can see how that would be classified as 'Chaotic Good', but we were expecting something grounded in science."Me: "So why were you asking for Myers-Briggs?"#Microfiction
(DIR) Post #Avg8gUyp3e15lwWVSy by backupbear@aus.social
2025-07-01T02:31:58Z
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@sortius Haha, the best thing about people who put Myers-Briggs on their Grindr/Scruff/etc. profile is it gives me an instant reason to block :D
(DIR) Post #AxN6Avi2Id0qnQYyyO by backupbear@aus.social
2025-08-20T02:39:57Z
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I had my second ever meeting today where this laptop sticker was relevant.
(DIR) Post #AxUgHibAOsJEcKbdGi by backupbear@aus.social
2025-08-22T03:15:31Z
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I am again begging movie producers to get a fecking hurry on and produce this. #Muppets
(DIR) Post #AykUMybBFGs8DLhyBE by backupbear@aus.social
2025-09-30T22:36:01Z
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And for today's lesson in checking AI generated slop images before using them in your advertising, we turn to McAfee.
(DIR) Post #AykUN5ts6AyyrLVUmm by backupbear@aus.social
2025-09-30T23:50:44Z
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Hilariously I just had another quick scroll through Facebook and got the same McAfee ad, with the third hand/arm removed.I imagine someone in the McAfee marketing department got a spanking.
(DIR) Post #AzfKXODl0f90Atwswy by backupbear@aus.social
2025-10-27T21:35:57Z
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Remember how everyone was warned about turning off computers before December 31, 1999, 23:59:59?Growing older in IT is just a continual feeling that it was probably a mistake to turn them back on again.
(DIR) Post #B0OO8pFt19XqhbEmsi by backupbear@aus.social
2025-11-19T04:20:59Z
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Many* years ago (approximately 27 in fact), when I was a Unix sysadmin at BHP-IT in Newcastle, we had one of our periodic "blame the network" events where suddenly all our systems went offline.I, and another Unix sysadmin bolted to the network team's office to let them know there was a significant outage.And so did admins from the NT team.And so did admins from the VMS team.And so did admins from the Tandem team.And then, admins from the Mainframe team arrived.***OH SHIT***So we all piled downstairs to see the emergency lights on in the datacentre, and a very sheepish looking $telco engineer being escorted from the next-door operations centre from one of the senior operators.And that was the moment it dawned on folks that having an unshielded "Emergency Stop" button right next to the "Open Door" button, both the same colour, was perhaps not the best of ideas. Particularly when neither were labelled.It was also my first lesson that causes for major outages don't have to be highly esoteric or technical. The simple fact is that so many outages are caused by sheer mundanity. The mundanity of some bean counter refusing to pay for a small perspex cover. The mundanity of leaving a human – subject to human error – being left in the wrong place unattended. The mundanity of not putting labels on buttons.
(DIR) Post #B0fGTiSZXTfSWd03CS by backupbear@aus.social
2025-11-27T07:33:10Z
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Alien: "Human of Earth. We come in peace. We can tell you how solve all your environmental problems, and end world hunger. We just need your authority to proceed."Random human: "OK."Alien <whispers>: "Tax the billionaires."